The Technical Assistance (TA) for Underrepresented Businesses Program began in 2020 with federal COVID dollars and has received funding from the Oregon Legislature for the past two biennia. The program funds organizations that help historically underrepresented and under-resourced small businesses. TA providers are selected biennially through a competitive process and reflect the program’s commitment to ensuring that small business technical assistance is widely available and accessible. This program is intended to advance economic prosperity for all as well as address long-standing disparities to wealth generation.

This report contains data for Fiscal Years 2022 - 2024.

For more information, visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/technical_assistance_program/Pages/default.aspx

The Oregon Royalty Fund provides direct loans to help early stage (post R & D and prototyping), scalable, and high-margin small businesses obtain short-term working capital to support rapid growth. This program is also know as the Small Business Expansion Loan Fund.

This report covers Fiscal Years 2019-2024.

For more information, visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/ORF/Pages/default.aspx

The Rural Opportunity Initiative is a collaborative strategy to build local environments supportive of entrepreneurs and small business through financial support, innovative partnerships, network creation, and a bevy of business development resources. This report covers Fiscal Years 2019-2024. For more information visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/ROI/Pages/default.aspx

The Regional Infrastructure Fund provides grants and loans to local governments for Regional Solutions implementation projects. This report covers Fiscal Years 2019-2024. For more information visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/aboutus/boards/regional_infrastructure_fund

The Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) supports science and research-based innovations in Oregon by bridging early stage capital gaps, leading to private capital investments. The Fund targets companies in the advanced manufacturing, active lifestyle, bioscience, medical devices, and natural resource industries.

This report covers fiscal years 2020-2024

For more information, please visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/CGF/Pages/default.aspx

Cash-based incentive (forgivable loan) awards made to existing companies expanding operations in Oregon or new companies coming into the state that is based on the estimated increase in income tax revenue from new hires.

For more information visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/BEP/Pages/default.aspx

This dataset contains awardee information for Fiscal Years 2016 - 2024.

Loans from the Oregon Credit Enhancement Fund (CEF) under ORS 285B.200. This is a loan insurance program available to lenders to assist businesses in obtaining access to capital.

For more information visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/CEF/Pages/default.aspx

Loans from the Oregon Capital Access Program (CAP) under ORS 285B.109. The program helps lenders make more commercial loans to non-profit and for-profit organizations seeking funds for most purposes. For more information visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/CAP/Pages/default.aspx

Grants provided in Fiscal Years 2019-2024. The Oregon Trade Promotion Program offers matching grants to small businesses to begin exporting goods into global markets, or expand sales in new markets. They can be used towards trade show costs, trade mission participation, translation services, export workshops and other eligible activities that support export growth.

For more information, visit https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/Export/

This page was created to attach miscellaneous Enterprise Zone (EZ) programmatic information not directly related other components of the program. Documents uploaded here include reports received by Business Oregon from local governments in fulfillment of ORS 276A.256(6).

For more information on Enterprise Zones, please visit
https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/enterprisezones
From this page, you can also access Transparency Reporting links for Parts A-D of the program.

To access information pertaining long-term rural Enterprise Zones, please visit
https://www.oregon.gov/biz/programs/enterprisezones/Long-TermRuralEnterpriseZone/Pages/default.aspx